DOTD For Friday, August 15, 2025
A Drink For The Flower Children
Today’s DOTD - Drink Of The Day - is a Flower Power Martini inspired by the original Woodstock, which started on this day in 1969.
On that day, half a million hippies rolled up to a farm in upstate New York for the world's most famous one-off music festival, Woodstock. Billed as being "an Aquarian exposition: 3 days of peace and music" it became so much more than that. Artists including The Who, Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, Sly & the Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix and the Grateful Dead all performed for a bead-wearing crowd.
Weed and acid flowed - there was even a dedicated "bad trip tent". Free love and nudity also abounded on a level that makes today's festivals look, frankly, extremely tame.
Yet, the original hippies and their flower power ideology were an incredible force for social change.
Ingredients
Here’s what you’re going to need for this drink:
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